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Annoying ailments
Butterflies
Fears
Favorite sculptures
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okay, okay. How about… favorite sculptures?
l have a little shiva and a little buddha on my desk.
I like the dancer sculpture by Degas!!! I like Buddhas too.
hmmmm….. I like sculptures of saints.
I like the Degas dancer, too!
I watched a really cool movie about it in art class once.
(2, 4) There was an article about her in the March 1999 issue of Muse.
I don’t have one.
Alexander Calder, maybe?
I don’t know.
And the big sculptures at DIA Beacon pwn.
I forget the artist though. And I’m too lazy to look it up.
I like gargoyles, the ones on top of cathedrals. They’re so cool, but I don’t knwow any gargoyle artist names, for some odd reason. Maybe it’s because nobody makes gargoyles anymore . . .
You don’t need to know names.
I like “The Horse” that they made from Leonardo’s notes and plans that he never got a chance to use.
Is jewelry a form of sculpture?
I never think about sculpture.
*counts seconds* By the time I’m done typing this sentence, it should be well over 15.
I have a panda sculpture shaped like a hippo. *looks around nervously* What?
Oooo gargoyles. I like the ones with the really weird looks (weird for a gargoyle even) on their faces. And ones that spit water.
I doubt whether you’d find and gargoyle sculptor’s names. In the middle ages, talented sculptors weren’t immortalised with inscriptions, even though they were the ones that carved the inscriptions. Memorial prose was reserved for abbots and the like. Some were saintly, others were corrupt, grasping hypocrites with their own private armies. It didn’t matter. An inscription went with the job.
Um, I have a little red Buddha and a little dragon made out of the ashes of the Mt. St. Helen eruption on my shelf.
16- *realizes that anyone who has Mt. St. Helens ashes must live near Mt. St. Helens* Where do you live? Care to come *cough* to a kokonvention? If we ever get one going?
That statue made out of the ashes of Mt. St. Helen sounds so cool. My faviorite sculptcure is the one with the cherry on a spoon in Minisota.
Actually, I have relatives who live in Oregon. I myself live in the general Chicagoland area.
I have a wooden sculpture of an unhappy looking samurai on my dresser, it is rather disturbing…
THF and I have dozens of soap-sculptures lying around our house, because we’re constantly carving soap. We’ve also started carving some wood, and I have a half-finished HPB on my bookshelf
I like “the Dancer” by dougais(?).
2: Me too. I can’t think of any others I like at this moment.
hey 16 were did you get those ashes from the eruption?
24-I’m not too sure, it was so long ago. I guess I just bought it at some sort of bazaar (is that how you spell it?) in Oregon.
I like sculptures alright, but I don’t have any favorites. Hmm. *thinks*
I happen to like gargoyls too. Vassar has a number of gargoyls, one of which wears a tie. The tie was an addition a few years ago. A prank I expect. I also have a gargoyle guarding the entrance to my living room.
I have a little ugly green gargoyle, a purple easter egg, a ceramic dog, a ceramic silver stiletto heel, a weird dog wearing a sailor suit and surrounded by books, a ginger bread house, a white and gold statue of Mary, a rawther ugly bird, Saint Francis with a bird, a wooden seal (like the animal seal, not the seal seal), and many other sculptures and statues of interest.
Thank you for sharing. Aside from the goddess, those seem weird.
there’s a sculpture of John the Baptist at my school. Apparently he’s pointing toward the promised land. My friends and I have so far failed to find the promised land, simply becasue we couldn’t find a good enough laser pointer. And even if we get one, the way is trought pricker bushes.
30-I find your comment slightly hilarious.
I have some sort of Irish statue/wall-hanging kind of thing hanging in my room. My father has another one with starving people in a boat (From the famine. Cheery, I know).
There’s also a rather life-like glass spider on my bookshelf. I don’t know if that counts…
How can a glass spider look life like, glass is clear and spiders arn’t(I hope).
32 – Maybe it was a living spider that was magically turned into glass.
What are you doing talking about spiders? I thought they scared you silly.
34 – Umm…. I’ve never been afraid of spiders. Though I do find the idea of them crawling into your mouth while you sleep disgusting. If there was a spider with carnivorous teeth, that would be scary, but that’s because I’m afraid of carnivorous teeth.
Then you’ll be relieved to know that Snopes.com says that spiders-in-the-mouth business isn’t true: www. snopes. com/science/stats/spiders.asp
It’s colored glass.
36-It isn’t! Joy!!! I have been
terrifiedslightly scared of spiders in my mouth, throat and stomach for several years… I can now go to sleep without wearing a surgical mask! (well, I don’t actually fall asleep wearing a surgical mask, but when I first heard about that [from a teacher, actually] I really wanted to…)“MuseBlog: Helping Teens Sleep More Soundly Since 2005.”
I know this seems kind of weird, but my worst fear is smoka alarms.
hmm. is this the new topic?
we already had a fears chamelion topic….. in august?
41- Yeah, we did.
Revisiting a topic is allowed, if there’s a demand for it.
38-Yay!
33-Maybe…
Hey, just because I mentioned something doesn’t mean everyone else has to follow.
Gigantic insects. Really creepy.
Hi, I’m new. I thought I’d become a MuseBlogger after a lot of procrastination. My biggest fear is……….. are you ready……. butterflies. Yes. It is true.
Hello, Captain! Have a pie! It’s apple.
Butterflies, huh?
Welcome, Captain Socks!
*pies*
*pies* What scares you about butterflies?
i get creeped out by the big swooping ones
There was this one time about second grade, when my class took a big field trip to a butterfly museum. A gigantic butterfly, about the size of a dinner plate flew down and landed on my teacher’s bag. She only noticed when museum security found that they were missing their huge butterfly.
52-Ooh. Butterfly thievery…
*Pies Captain Socks* Welcome!
52-I went to a butterfly garden once too. It was really cool, except when one of them tried to land on my face.
So why are they called butterflies, then? I shall be just as delighted with inventive fantasy as anything approaching the real answer
55- Because they secretly subsist on butter. Lewis Carrol came very near the truth with his “bread-and-butter-flies”, but of course they will have nothing to do with bread.
55 – According to Webster’s, it stems from a belief that butterflies or witches in the shape of butterflies stole milk and butter.
I discovered this on one of numerous trips to Peru, where the butterflies have their secret hideout. You didn’t know that they’re actually gathering and training an army, did you? They have a plan to take over South America, turning the humans into pollen-gathering, butter-making slaves. They’re working on Switzerland right now, too. They plan to turn this into their base while they train their armies and spies to take over N. America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. They have no interest in Antarctica.
Why ever not? Antarctica wouldn’t have any resistance to takeover. Or is that the reason, because it wouldn’t be a challenge?
59- Too cold.
um, GAPAs, we are now on our thrird topic. the second was fears, and now it is butterflies.
well, thanks, but know it is at the end of the page.
60-Aww, that’s no fun.
So, butterflies. They have pretty colors. I cought a moth once. It died.
why is it at the bootom of the page?
64- Why did you catch it? And did its dying have anything to do with its being caught?
My personal favorite butterfly is the blue morpho.
I once rased a monarch catapillar into a butterfly. When it was a catterpiller it pooped alot.
67- In first grade (yeah, yeah, I know, another boring story about my not-too memorable past), we raised caterpillars into butterflies, and then they all died. I think it was because some idiot kept shaking the box when the caterpillars were in their little chrysalis things on the sides.
66-I caught it to save its life (for a while). It was on the sidewalk (sqwished by someone’s shoe) and a passing car blew it up in the air. I cought it, and found it to be actually alive. I placed it near an air conditioner and it lived another two hours.
69- Aww… That’s so sweet!
Okay, why is this thread listed at the bottom of the page? I thought we got automatic second place on the list.
70 – I think something happened when they added the new topics.
Aaaaaaarg! We’re being pushed into oblivion! Now we’re on the second page!
Yes, it keeps slipping for some reason. They’re slippery devils, those morphing chameleons.
What scares me is the big eyes on the wings. YARRGH!!!!!!!!!!!
Tehehehe…. HAHAHAHAHA i heard this awesome joke just now
[it has nothing to do with butterflies, yet i saw a prettyone just yesterday].
What do a duck and a bicycle have in common?
I raised monarch butterflies several years ago. I think the first time I did it, they died. But they lived when we tried it again.
Ok, I give up. What do a duck and a bicycle have in common?
One time, I was waiting for soccer practice to start, and I noticed a butterfly flying near me. I had nothing better to do, so I followed it. I was running after it for a while, and it finally led me to its home in a lovely white bush. It had another butterfly friend; it was a beautiful sight… until I saw the bees in the bush next door. RUN!!!
i luuurve butterflys they is soooo beutiflu. yes i love them sooo much. very mystical beasties they is.
wow long time no ee, Coontz, my old adversary. so we meet again. (cue old western music)
criselephantine puddle where are u?> i need more Naruto fans to talk to!
77- Wheels, except for the duck! (hahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAhahaha)
This is driving me insane. WHAT on this EARTH do a bicycle and a duck have in common, Misswan?
She just said it!
I’m sorry! That’s very funny, (musta forgot to laugh
) I think I haev a good joke. Mine’s not about butterflies either, but see an awesome anecdote about my experience with one on comment #78.:
What is the muses’ favorite drink?
Uuuuuuuum… Well, it’s not Chad’s artificial prune juice…
I guess Feather’s favorite drink is milk after he eats a donut.
I really have no clue. What is the muses’ favorite drink???
FINE, I admit it. I’m a newbie. Go ahead. Pie me.
“Follow the butterflies, follow the butterflies… “
86-89- Fluffylump, maybe you might want to consolidate your posts next time, instead of quadruple posting. Just a suggestion. It’s easier to read one post than 4. Also, it makes the GAPA’s job easier. *pies with fluffy welcome pie*
*pies Fluffylump* Take THAT! OK. A muse’s favorite drink is………………… “hot COCAOpelli!! *canned laughter* Actually, you guys had some really good guesses. How about a new joke! This one’s about buterflies! Ummm…. Sorry can’t think of one yet. I’ll post one for you guys as soon as I think of one!
Sorry for quadruple posting. Here’s an easy butterfly joke: What happend to the butterfly when it crossed the road?
93- That’s okay. You might want to head on over to the “welcome newcomers” thread; that’s generally the place where the most people are pied.
You could have told me that before I went there.
93- well, it got stuckon the windsheild *splat*
Yup, and it became beautiful splat art.
97- dude! did i actualy guess right?
¡Si! You got it right! I was thinking of the splat article in the black hole muse issue when I wrote that.
99- wow. that has never happened before! i must be skilled!
Well, It was a pretty easy joke.
101- well yeah except for the fact that i was expecting a witty punchline…
Ah, well. It was meant to be so lame that it was funny, but I guess it was even lamer then that.
*YAAAAAAAAAAAAWN*
Nobody’s up yet. You should all move to the east coast so i can post when I wake up.
My mom knows alot about butterfly’s. I think she got her second Master’s on them or something like that. Probably incects, I remember finding i bunch of little jars with dead bugs in them in our basement when I was little.
95- You went there? Oh, you did go to the thread. My bad.
Are we still talking about butterflies? We’ve been talking about butterflies since post #47!!! I think we should do a new topic.
I like gargoyles to… *ackward silence*
Gargoyles? We talked about gargoyles a long time ago. Now we’re talking about butterflies (though I wish we would change the subject).
I say we change the subject to emos because it’s getting so much attention on the R&R thread.
Yes! Let’s talk about emos.
I’m not going to say that you can’t, because I don’t post on here, but please think more about what you’re saying. “Emos”, for example, implies that they’re not humans, which they most definitely are. If you use emos in that way, it seems like you’re just stereotyping them (which you are). Please consider that, and choose a better topic.
For example, how hot I amLike HTML, or something. Itpwns. And that had better’ve worked.Agreed, Glassy.
How about we talk about annoying ailments such as failing eyesight, going deaf, or braces (etc.)?
I have glasses/contacts and I do believe I am losing my hearing. (I failed my hearing test last year… but that was because there was wax in my ear… yuck)
I’m sorry for sounding like I was stereotyping emos. I actually don’t really care what topic we pick, as long as it’s a new one.
Yes! Lets talk about annoying ailments! I have braces (very painful) and I also have slightly impaired vision, especially to my right eye.
I have several blisters on my feet. And I have a cold. And I lost my retainer, and so soon my teeth will be all messed up. And I don’t want to go to school… (Wait, I don’t think that counts)
I have braces, and they stink. There are tons of food you can’t eat, and flossing is neraly impossible! It would stink to go blind…I have contacts.
I have a second degree burn on my hand. one of my friend’s mother literally burned a hole in my hand. It was her tha cried. I just stuck it under some water.
I am used to getting burned. Cigerettes must be strangely magnetically atracted to me.
I’m taking stained glass, and one of my classmates practically burned a hole through her flesh when she accidentally picked up a soddering iron the wrong way. There’s also the ever present annoying microscopic holes in one’s fingertips from pointy peices of glass.
I ave an incredibly annoying blister thing on my toe, and it has a really bad habit of peeling at any old time, as long as I don’t want it too. Ironic, isn’t it??
Braces in… *counts on fingers*…well, on November 7 I’ll have to get braces. I have a consultation thing tomorrow where the ortho will tell me how long I’ll have them. Then, next Tuesday (which we have off, by the way), I’m getting the braces on.
I’m a dancer, so my feet are uhgly. Anywhere that I used to get blisters, I now just have a callous. Thing.
And I can hardly see without my glasses/contacts. It sucks at night once I’ve taken my contacts out and I don’t have my glasses with me. Bad eyesight. Bad.
I broke my little toe two months ago when I stibbed it. I thought i was just a really bad bump, but as it’s been 2 1/2 months since then it’s deffinatly not. The sports med teacher confirmed it, too. My foot… it still hurts when I bend it wrong, but there’s not really anything I can do. I don’t think it’s worth going to the doctor for as I can walk (limped the first 2 days though) and there’s ntohign they can do either.
My eyesight is also getting steadily worse and worse! Gues how many lines I can read on that chart: None! I can’t even see it from the chair. It’s just a vauglely whiter plotch of wall. Grr nearsightedness. Even though my glasses are cool.
Gettig braces in a little while. Novemeber I think. Invisiline though, the kind you can take out. *wipes brow* I’ll keep them in for everthing but eating though.
122- (last paragraph) Lucky. I’m getting rubber bands and the metal stuff. That’s gonna be torture, seeing as I’m in band. Do rubber bands (for braces) break easily?
Once I got a scratch on my leg, and it healed. Then, I got another scratch in the same spot, and it also eventually healed. Today, I got ANOTHER scratch there, and it now hurts like crazy!
123- Let me see… *Runs to bathroom* OOOOW! No, they don’t break unless you pull really, really, hard. (ouch)!
Most people seem to be talking about health ailments now… well, I know a kid in a wheelchair. He’s very nice, and I think he might have braces too…… I don’t know, but I have my braces, as you know, but only the top. I get bottoms added to the ensamble in November. Yay me… but that means I will be able to say that I (for real) have all my braces! The sooner thay go on, the sooner they come off BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
“The sooner they go on, the sooner they come off”? That’s a good attitude… All I thought was “GET THIS METAL JUNK OUT OF MY TEETH”!
I have really bad vision without glasses. With glasses, it depends on how recently I washed the glasses. I love my dentist because he keeps putting off braces. He says that if we wait long enough, lip pressure will straighten my teeth and I might not need braces.
128- I wish my dentist were like that. He’s always putting new, more painful braces on my teeth.
Hehe. I have never had braces, and most probably never will. *gloats* But on the other hand, I’ve got other things to annoy me, like my ADD.
121-You are? Join the dance thread–it’s dying!
I hated my braces…
Hoo boy…….So, I’ll need braces for 22 months total, and nearly half of that will be with headgear. The other half will be with rubber bands. Again, I’m getting them on next Tuesday.
I get weird arches on my inner gums in two weeks, then I have to get my crossbite fixed in seven weeks so I get braces on the top front teeth, and I’m doing speech therapy to fix my tonguethrust (which means my tongue is incorrectly positioned in my mouth (which means it sticks out) so I have to retrain it). I also need to get REAL braces after the arches come out and so do all my teeth which will be NEVER because I have slow dental development. Oh, and I’m a mouthbreather.
GOSH.
I also have had ADHD which is a little like ADD, but I think I’m starting to outgrow it now.
127- I thought that at first, I just wanted to blog about something pleasent
OOOOOO… One time, I had the sorest throat ever, and it turns out I had *gulp* BLISTERS on my uvula (the dangly thing in the back of your mouth)!!!!
OOOOOO… And another time, I got these zit bumpy things on the backs of my hands! It was so gross! (actually, it was kinda cool too!
) The doctor said it was some form of empitigo. ick. Its been gone for a long time now. I had to take a horse pill every day for a while.
Anybody ever got hives (those little red plateaus that pop up all over your body)? I got them once, and it was TERRIBLE…